Researching hard-to-reach social groups: The example of gay and lesbian population in Slovenia

Drustvena Istrazivanja

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 529-552

  Švab, Alenka ^a,c,e   Kuhar, Roman ^b,d,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b Peace Instit   (Slovenia)

^c Fakultet Dru tvenih Znanosti   (Slovenia)

^d Mirovni in titut   (Slovenia)

^e Fakultat fur Gesellschaftswissenschaften   (Slovenia)

^f Friedensinstitut   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Closet; Coming out; Everyday life; Focus groups; Gays and lesbians; Hard to reach social groups; Partnership; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 49249095151     PISSN: 13300288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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